Elsevier CPM Resource Center to Integrate Evidence-Based Clinical Content Software at Providence Health & Services

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, July 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ –

– CPM and Providence Health & Services Collaboration Aims to Improve
Overall Interdisciplinary Care and Transform Patient Care Culture

Elsevier / CPM Resource Center (CPM), a leader in developing clinical
decision support tools for healthcare, announced today a contract with
Providence Health & Services, a not-for-profit health system committed to
providing services to communities across five states – Alaska, California,
Montana, Oregon and Washington – to provide evidence-based clinical content
software.

Providence Health & Services selected CPM as the vendor of choice for
evidence-based interdisciplinary professional practice workflow support,
including clinical documentation, care planning and clinical practice
guidelines for nurses and interdisciplinary clinicians in order to improve
overall patient care and patient experience. CPM’s evidence-based content
seamlessly interfaces with health information technology platforms.

Providence Health & Services plans to validate and begin using the CPM
clinical content this year to support clinical scholarship within their
organization. CPM’s products will be delivered within Providence Health &
Services’ future acute care EHR (Electronic Health Record) system, which
will begin rolling out in 2012. The organization’s Clinical Practice
Transformation Team (CPTT) will engage in reviewing and validating the
interdisciplinary content for use in an acute care setting, and consultants
from CPM’s Transformation Services team will also work with the teams to
create consistent practice adoption throughout all areas.

The adoption of CPM’s products will help Providence Health & Services to
further achieve its organization’s goals, including maintaining the highest
clinical standards possible, reducing variation in care delivery and
empowering clinicians to practice with the best point-of-care resources.
Additionally, the combination of the EHR platform and CPM’s product will
also support Providence Health & Services’ acute care ministries to achieve
advances in care in order to achieve nursing excellence.

With more than 25 years of experience, CPM embraces the concept of
providing a culture and professional practice framework that consists of
evidence-based clinical care solutions to assist in the practice
transformation of hospitals. Essentially, solutions are offered to not only
help standardize care across the continuum but provide superior support to
point-of-care providers throughout the transition to ensure seamless
adoption by the interdisciplinary team and that appropriate systems are in
place to meet the goals and objectives of the facility.

About Providence Health & Services

Providence Health & Services is a not-for-profit Catholic health care
ministry committed to providing for the needs of the communities it serves -
especially for those who are the poor and vulnerable. Providence’s
comprehensive scope of services includes 27 hospitals, numerous non-acute
care facilities and physician clinics, a health plan, a liberal arts
university, a high school, 52,000 employees and many other health, housing
and educational services. The health system spans five states – Alaska,
California, Montana, Oregon and Washington – with its system office located
in Renton, Washington. Providence Health & Services continues a tradition of
caring that the Sisters of Providence began more than 155 years ago.

About Elsevier CPM Resource Center

For more than 25 years, Elsevier CPM Resource Center (CPM) has been
offering evidence-based, interdisciplinary clinical practice guidelines,
care planning and documentation at the point of care. Based on the CPM
Framework(TM), these EMR compatible and web-based solutions are developed and
maintained by expert interdisciplinary colleagues, and tested/validated
through a Consortium of nearly 300 member hospitals. In addition, the
company offers Practice Transformation services to assist organizations with
clinical practice advancement, team-based care and EMR implementation and
adoption. CPM is a business unit of Elsevier, the world’s leading provider
of science and health information. For more information, visit

http://www.cpmrc.com.

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and
medical information products and services. The company works in partnership
with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000
journals, including The Lancet [http://www.thelancet.com ] and Cell
[http://www.cell.com ], and close to 20,000 book titles, including major
reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier’s online solutions include
SciVerse ScienceDirect [http://www.sciencedirect.com ], SciVerse Scopus
[http://www.scopus.nl ], Reaxys [http://www.reaxys.com ], MD Consult
[http://www.mdconsult.com ] and Nursing Consult
[http://www.nursingconsult.com ], which enhance the productivity of science
and health professionals, and the SciVal suite [http://www.scival.com ] and
MEDai’s Pinpoint Review [http://www.medai.com ], which help research and

health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively. A
employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group
PLC [http://www.reedelsevier.com ], a world-leading publisher and information
provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV.
The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock
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        Tom Reller
        Vice President of Global Relations, Elsevier
        +1-212-462-1912
        T.Reller@Elsevier.com

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